Gabriel Jesus came on in the 77th minute for his first football since the World Cup
Gabriel Magalhaes scored the first; the insistently brilliant Martin Ødegaard the third and that was that by half-time, Arsenal en route to a fifth Premier League win on the spin, 15 goals scored during the sequence. Up in the stands, Mick Jagger could smile. For him and his fellow Arsenal supporters, there was only satisfaction. It was a nice touch from Fulham to play Start Me Up by the Rolling Stones at half-time. They were the most accommodating of hosts.
The numbers tell their own story about Fulham without Palhinha, who has surely been one of the signings of the season. It is now P4 L4 GA 12. Fulham put minimal pressure on the ball and a breakthrough goal for Arsenal quickly came to feel inevitable; even Fulham appeared braced for it. It did not. Fulham would get worse, much worse over the remainder of a desperate first-half for them, sleepwalking into Arsenal’s aggressive press, surrendering possession in dangerous areas, losing the duels, doing zero as an attacking force. It was as if Ødegaard was playing with his own ball while Bukayo Saka was imperious, Robinson no match for him.
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